Here's another guest post by me, Chris Womack. Custody transfer is today's topic—specifically, improving level and temperature measurement of crude oil for custody transfer, while minimizing cost and disturbances to current operations. Even more specifically, when...
Hi—Chris Womack here again. In today's guest post, I'm back to talking about overfill protection and terminals. Specifically, I'm discussing a recent presentation that Emerson Global Sales Manager Johan Sandberg delivered to around 200 people at the June 4...
In an earlier post, Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring, we highlighted how technology can assist in providing early warning for abnormal situations such as roof tilt in tank farms. I received an email question: …so when the roof...
I wanted to share two videos from Emerson's Rosemount Tank Gauging team. Both feature Emerson's Ulf Johannesson. In the first, short 1:36 video, StocExpo 2013 - Tank Gauging Solutions, from the recent StocExpo 2013 conference, Ulf describes elements of the Raptor Tank...
Emerson's Chris Womack shares his insights on terminal and tank monitoring in today's guest post. In the world of tanks and terminals, there's mounting pressure for more environmental protection in the form of "sustainability"—the use of recyclable and non-toxic...
Emerson's Chris Womack highlights a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) project in Mexico in today's guest post. In liquid petroleum gas terminals featuring partial automation, several systems control the plant's filling racks, custody transfer areas, and safety systems....
Chris Womack recaps an Emerson Exchange presentation on storage tank process availability. It's crucial to keep storage tanks—and terminal facilities—constantly monitored, so they're always associated with an ongoing cost. But that cost is going down. In another of...
Earlier this week, we highlighted an updated thermowell installation standard. Today let's talk about the 4th version of API 2350 Overfill Protection standard. This standard applies to petroleum storage tanks associated with marketing, refining, pipeline, terminals...
Tank storage facilities are critical in the supply chain from feedstock production through mid-stream and end user distribution. At last summer's Emerson Exchange Düsseldorf conference, Vopak's Louis Janssen and Emerson's Cor Vermeijs presented, Improved terminal...
Happy New Year everyone! Our new year here at the Emerson Process Experts blog got off to a rocky start with a database crash late yesterday. We seem to have things restored and will be spot checking everything, but leave a comment if you encounter anything out of the...
Imagine being an operator for a Swedish tank storage facility aside the Baltic Sea and having to manually measure tank levels in the dead of winter. That's exactly what operators at FH Tank Storage AB have had to do at the Kalmar storage terminal in a story told by...
In the process of moving hydrocarbon through the supply chain from producer to consumer, terminals play an important role. They receive liquids and gases from many sources including ship, rail and pipeline. These gas and liquid hydrocarbons are stored in tanks or...
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